For most of you it's the last day before a very nice extended vacation. (For some of us it's just the usual Friday because the holidays don't mean we'll stop working for you, the seven or eight readers who'll still be around.) Anyway, here's some nonsense you can skim through while preparing to cut out of work early to go down a bowl full of egg nog and prepare your living room booby traps for the fat man in red.

For most of you it's the last day before a very nice extended vacation. (For some of us it's just the usual Friday because the holidays don't mean we'll stop working for you, the seven or eight readers who'll still be around.) Anyway, here's some nonsense you can skim through while preparing to cut out of work early to go down a bowl full of egg nog and prepare your living room booby traps for the fat man in red.

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1. Like Crap Through a Goose

It's day three of Duck-Gate: America Held Hostage. I know you're already exhausted and have begun trying to eat your own leg off at the ankle while blinking, "Please kill me," in morse code to everyone you run into, but there's one more thing we really need to consider in all this lunacy -- Phil Robertson's comments on race in that GQ interview. In a lot of ways they were far worse than his views on gay people, simply because they weren't even informed by the Bible -- just his own dumb-ass redneck ignorance.

Obviously you know how I generally feel about Salon, but I've always said that the site has quite a bit of really good talent contributing to it -- you just need to wade through a lot of crap to find it. One of its true stars is Pareene, and I've got to say, this past week he's sincerely put himself in the top echelon of brilliantly smart-ass political writers. His annual "Hack List" wasn't just the usual countdown of the worst of the worst the political media gave us this year -- this time around he actually wrote each of the columns in the voice of the hack he was profiling. It was a pretty impressive feat, taking on ten different horrible voices and doing it flawlessly. I haven't seen anything that inspired since Taibbi did his series of "Wimbelhack" pieces back in the New York Press days. If you haven't been reading all week, start at the end and work your way back since the previous links are provided. Every one of them is a damn treasure.